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This match is a standard tag match, with Eddy and Jagged working well together, dominating the action and preventing Taylor from making the "hot tag" to Ryder.

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  1. noun One that is exactly like another; a counterpart.
  2. noun One that is like another in one or more specified qualities: He is John's match for bravery.
  3. noun One that is able to compete equally with another: The boxer had met his match.
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  • This match was a team elimination for the WWF tag team championship and the Smoking Guns were the champions going into this match. —  PWTorch.com
  • The main feature of the match was an enormous puddle in the middle of the pitch, surrounded by a number of other smaller puddles that rendered early scrums and rucks farcical at times. —  Planet Rugby News - Rugby Union News
  • Despite the lopsided score, Harader believes that the match was a good preparation for Paly's league rival Lynbrook High School, which the Vikings will play on Monday. —  Paly Voice
  • His most memorable - and surreal - WrestleMania match was against Hogan at WM 18. —  Blog updates
  • And when you get a rout, such as Ogilvy over Casey on Sunday, the match is a downright snoozefest. —  Tucson Citizen
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match:   matching ·  matched ·  matches
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  1. Middle English macche, from Old English gemæcca, companion, mate; see mag- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English matche, lamp wick, from Old French mesche, from Vulgar Latin *micca, from Latin myxa, a lamp's nozzle, from Greek muxa, mucus, lamp wick.

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  1. from Middle English matche, metche, macche, mache, mecche, meche, from Anglo-Saxon gemœcca, a companion, a secondary form of gemaca, a companion, whence English make, and by corruption mate: see make, mate.
  2. from Middle English matchen, macchen, match: from the noun.
  3. from Middle English macche, from Old French mesche, meische, French màche, the wick of a candle, a match to fire a gun, = Provencal mecha, meca = Spanish Portuguese mecha = Italian miccia, a match, from Middle Latin mixa, *myxa, mixus, Latin myxus, masculine, a wick, the part of a lamp through which the wick protrudes, the nozle, from Greek μύξα, the nozle of a lamp, a nostril, mucus, akin to L. mucus, mucus: see mucus.
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